μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 7references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • Irish mythCross
  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • Italian Novella*Rotunda
  • India*Thompson-Balys.
  • general *Chauvin V 107 No. 37
  • general Heptameron Nos. 50, 70
  • general Boccaccio Decameron IV No. 8 (Lee 140)
Within the index

Filed under Tragic love.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Rival suitors kill each other over woman's love. Woman dies of broken heart and all three are buried in the same graveLovers die at the same timeMistress springs into dead lover's graveGirl and boy promised to each other by parents both die when they see each other after girl's marriage to another
Filed beside it
Death from loveBath of blood of beloved to cure love-sick empressHero and Leander. Lover drowned as he swims to see his mistressLovers treacherously separatedWoman mourns dead loverLovers forbidden to marry starve themselves to deathWoman stricken by plague and forsaken by her husband is sought out by unsuccessful lover and dies in his armsTragic love – miscellaneous motifs

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